HIS 102 Western Civ II

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UNION COUNTY COLLEGE

WESTERN CIVILIZATION II, HIS 102 

SYLLABUS    

Fall Semester 2012 

Important Announcement Posted DECEMBER 7, 2012

On December 11, in class, I will be handing out a Supplemental Take Home Final.  It requires you to fill in 100 fill-in facts.  It must be returned in class no later than December 18.  If you need an extra copy, follow the link and print.  Take Home Final

On December 20, you will be tested in class. You will be given a two part exam.  One part will count as a final and the second part as a third hourly.   Two grades will be recorded.

You are expected to have read Chapters 12 through 24 in the Hunt book.  In terms of the exams, please see below what is emphasized in the multiple choice questions and were you might profitably concentrate your studies.  This is a study guide and not a guarantee.  You are not excused from reading all the material assigned.

HIS 102 FINAL EXAMINATION PART

40 Multiple Choice Questions

France from Henry IV – Louis XIV – 9 questions :  Hunt, Ch. 12, pp. 449- 457

England from Elizabeth I – William and Mary – George I –6 questions:  Hunt,  Ch.13, pp. 497 - 507

Enlightenment --  5 questions:  Hunt, Ch. 14, pp. 552 – 558; Ch. 15, pp. 561 - 580

French Revolution and Napoleon 9 questions:  Hunt, Ch. 16

19th Century including Industrial Revolution, Italian and German Unification –11 questions
                Hunt, Ch. 17. Pp. 661 – 680; Ch.18, 683 – 703; 715 - 726

 

HIS 102 THIRD HOURLY EXAMINATION PART

30 Multiple Choice Questions

Socialism: – 2 questions:  Hunt, Ch.  19, pp. -758 - 770

World War I: – 5 questions:  Hunt, Ch. 19, pp. 770 – 776; Ch. 20 pp. 779 - 798

Interwar Period: – 6 questions: Hunt, Ch. 20, pp. 796 - 822

Hitler and World War II: - 7 questions: Hunt, Ch. 21, pp. 825 -  866

Cold War Period: – 10 questions:  Hunt, Ch.22 & Ch. 23

 

TEXTS:

Hunt, Lynn; Thomas R. Martin; Barbara H. Rosenwein; and Bonnie G. Smith. 
        The Making of the West:  Peoples and Cultures:   A Concise History,
       
3rd Ed.  Volume II, Since 1340.  Boston:  Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010.

Lualdi, Katharine J.  Sources of The Making of the West:  Peoples and
    Cultures:  A Concise History
, 3rd Ed.  Volume II,  Since 1340. 
    Boston:  Bedford/St Martin's, 2010.

Online Study Guide at:  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/huntconcise 

Lualdi is a reader with primary source material that comes at no extra cost to the student when bundled with the Hunt text.

Supplementary:

Thomas J. Kehoe, Harold E. Damerow, and Jose Marie Duvall, Exploring
     Western Civilization:  1600 to the Present:   A Worktext for the Active
     Student, Revised Edition.  (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.,
      1999.

The Kehoe text follows my lectures. Also check out my own web pages on Western Civilization II nested below this page.

This course is being taught on a Tuesday and Thursday schedule during the Fall Semester 2012
Our first class is scheduled for Tuesday, September 5.
Please have read Chapter Twelve in the Hunt textbook by the first day of classes.

 

The Official Withdrawal Date for the Fall Semester is Wednesday, October 24

A Late Withdrawal may be requested by a student and given with Permission of the Instructor.
I grant Late W grades until after class on Thursday, November 28.
This was changed from Tuesday, November 20 due to Hurricane Sandy.
Students must see me in person to make the request.  No late withdrawals will be given after that date.


ASSIGNMENTS:

I: Early Modern Period: 1500 - 1789
        Hunt, Chapters 12 - 15
        Kehoe, pp. xv - 83
        Lualdi, Chapters 13 - 15 skim material

FIRST HOURLY EXAMINATION:  Tuesday, October 9

II: The French Revolution through 1880
        Hunt, Chapters 16 -18
        Kehoe, pp. 89 - 188
        Lualdi, Chapters 16 - 18 skim material

SECOND HOURLY EXAMINATION:  Thursday, November 1 CHANGED TO NOVEMBER 20 DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY

III: The Tragedy of Western Civilization:  1880 - 1945
        Hunt, Chapters 19 - 21
        Kehoe, pp. 188 - 366
        Lualdi, Chapters 19 - 21 skim material

THIRD HOURLY EXAMINATION:  CHANGED.  Thursday, November 29.  Exam was changed due to Hurricane Sandy.  Third Hourly will be given together with an abbreviated final on December 20 during regular class time.

IV: Cold War  to Now:  1945 - 2011
        Hunt, Chapters 22 - 24
        Kehoe, pp. 371 - 493
        Lualdi, Chapters 22 - 24 skim material

FINAL EXAMINATION: THE FINAL EXAM WEEK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY.  REGULAR CLASSES WILL BE HELD DURING EXAM WEEK.  AN ABBREVIATED FINAL WILL BE GIVEN DURING CLASS TIME ON DECEMBER 20, 2012.

THE FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK  STARTING DECEMBER 17 HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

INFORMATION LITERACY

All students at Union County College are expected to become "information literate" before they graduate and all college-credit courses are expected to have an information literacy component.  

"Information literacy" requires that you can do research on any topic assigned using the library and the internet.  It requires that you can distinguish facts from opinions, reputable sources from propaganda, primary sources and secondary sources, and much more.  It also requires that you can do a bibliography.  The end product of research is usually a term paper or article.  

Freshman level (100-level) courses at Union County College have not traditionally required a term paper and none will be required in this course.  But in order to comply with the renewed emphasis on information literacy, you will be required to submit an annotated bibliography on any subject covered in this course.  No two students will be permitted to research the same subject.  Read the detailed instructions on my Information Literacy pages.  This project involves three stages:

Stage 1.  By Tuesday, September 18.  Selection of topic for annotated bibliography.

Pick any person, event or idea listed in the index of the Hunt or Kehoe texts, which interests you and happened after 1648 in Europe.  Clear the topic with me and start doing the annotated bibliography.

Stage 2.  Due Tuesday, October 16.  Submit an annotated bibliography of five items grouped into the following three categories:

    a.  one encyclopedia (not online)
    b.  two books
    c.  two articles from a scholarly magazine.  (You may have to look at a data base for this.)

The Encyclopedia and the two books must be in the Union County College MacKay Library.  Preferably the two articles are also available in a magazine or journal in our library.  But if you can not find an appropriate source in our library, then utilize one of our online Data Bases.

The annotated bibliography MUST use the Turabian format, which is the same as the Chicago Style Manual.  It may NOT be based on Internet sources.

Stage 3.  Due Tuesday, November 20.  Submit an annotated bibliography of ten items, using the corrected material from the first submission plus five new items grouped into the following categories:

    a.  one encyclopedia
    b.  two books
    c.  two articles from a scholarly magazine
    d.  one article from a popular magazine
    e.  one original source
    f.  three sources found through the Internet.

The annotated bibliography must use the Turabian Citation Style 

Annotation.   Annotating a bibliographic entry means to write a brief paragraph explaining the book or article. Briefly describe the content of the book or article. Who wrote the article? What are his or her credentials?  Include the library where you did the research and the library call numbers of the resource in your annotation. (Not in the bibliographic entry).   Evaluate the magazine where the article appeared.  Is it well known, specialized, scholarly?  If you used the internet, then state whose WEB site you are using.  Evaluate the usefulness, to you, of the article, book, or WEB site.

Check out my Information Literacy Pages for more information.

GRADING AND EXAMINATION POLICIES


HOURLY EXAMS                                         -- 40%
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 items)   -- 20%
ATTENDANCE AND QUIZZES                      -- 10%
FINAL EXAM                                                -- 30%
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COURSE GRADE                                         -- 100%

 

GENERAL INFORMATION AND POLICIES INCLUDING DISABILITY STATEMENT.

For general information about office hours, grading policies, attendance, deportment, and college policies see the General Information Page.  This page is part of your syllabus.  It states the deadline for Late Withdrawals and contains information about College policies regarding students with disabilities.

 

For more detailed information on the material covered in this course, see the Concepts and other Web pages linked to this page.

Additional material will be posted on my WEB pages.  So, keep checking.

Important Announcement Posted November 8

Date for Second Hourly Exam is changed to November 20

Study Hunt, Chapters 16 and 17.  There will be 30 multiple choice questions based on those two chapters.
Chapter 18 will be on next test.

The four essay questions will count 70%.

Test Two
Essay Questions

You will have to answer all four questions, so prepare.

1.        Discuss Napoleon I.  what were his major domestic achievements within France.  Why did the Napoleonic Empire ultimately fair?  (20%)

2.       Discuss the Congress of Vienna and the conservative settlement that followed the Napoleonic Wars. (15%)

3.       Where did the Industrial Revolution startm, when, what was it, and what was its long-term significance. (15%)

4.       Discuss the five main ideologies that developed during the 19th century. (20%)

 

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Senior Professor of Government and History
Union County College
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